OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY HISTORY
This county was created in 1836 and later became home to Oxford.
What is Lafayette County?
This public university located in Oxford was founded in 1848.
What is the University of Mississippi?
This nationally recognized independent bookstore anchors literary culture on the Oxford Square.
What is Square Books?
This Nobel Prize–winning author lived in Oxford and set many works in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
Who is William Faulkner?
This weekly market brings together farmers, artisans, and residents from Oxford and Lafayette County.
What is the Oxford Community Market?
This year marks when the town of Oxford, Mississippi was officially chartered.
What is 1837?
These are the two separate public school districts that serve students in Oxford and the surrounding county.
What are the Oxford School District and the Lafayette County School District?
This local nonprofit supports visual arts, music, and community-based creative programming in Oxford.
What is the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council?
This bestselling author and Ole Miss alumnus is known for legal thrillers set in Mississippi.
Who is John Grisham?
This department store is the oldest continuously operating store in Mississippi and sits on the Oxford Square.
What is Neilson’s?
This Indigenous nation lived on the land that became Oxford and Lafayette County before the town was founded.
Who are the Chickasaw people?
This historically significant African-American high school served Black students in Oxford until full integration in 1970 and was originally called the Oxford Training School.
What is Central High School?
This James Beard Award–winning chef owns multiple restaurants in Oxford.
Who is John Currence?
This prominent 19th-century American politician, jurist, and academic from Mississippi served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, Secretary of the Interior, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is L.Q.C. Lamar?
This public recreational space serves skaters and youth in Oxford.
What is the Oxford Skate Park?
These two men are credited as the founders of Oxford.
Who are John Martin and John Chisholm?
This person served as the first chancellor of the University of Mississippi.
Who was Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard?
This Bob Dylan song is referenced in connection to Oxford and Mississippi Delta culture.
What is “Oxford Town”?
This prominent African American matriarch, landowner, and beloved community figure in Oxford, Mississippi, was known for hosting large, drum-announced picnics and her acts of kindness.
Who was Molly Barr?
This museum and historic church building serves as a site of Black history, memory, and community gathering.
What is the Burns-Belfry Museum?
According to the most recent census, Oxford’s population is approximately this number.
What is about 28,000 people?
This year marks the violent integration of the University of Mississippi by James Meredith.
What is 1962?
This independent record label helped define Oxford’s national indie music reputation.
What is Fat Possum Records?
This legendary Chickasaw figure in Oxford, Mississippi, is associated with selling the land for the town's founding in 1836.
Who is Princess Hoka?
Oxford covers approximately this many square miles.
What is about 26 square miles?